Publications

PUBLICATIONS

• Zhu, Y. A., & Grüter, T. (in press). Structural priming facilitates L2 learning of the dative alternation in Mandarin. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

• Grüter, T., Zhu, Y. A., & Jackson, C. N. (2021). Forcing prediction increases priming and adaptation in second language production. In E. Kaan & T. Grüter (Eds.), Prediction in second language learning and processing (pp. 207-231). John Benjamins.

• Zhu, Y., & Zhao, Y. (2016). Acquisition of Chinese double object construction by English and Japanese speakers. Journal of International Chinese Teaching, (4): 58-67.

PRESENTATIONS

• Zhu, A.Y., & Grüter, T. (2024). Priming ditransitives in L2 Mandarin leads to adjustments in production but not in predictive processing. Poster presented at the 5th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2024), Swansea University, U.K., May 23-24.

• Zhu, A.Y., & Grüter, T. (2024). Priming ditransitives in L2 Mandarin: Error-driven learning affects production but not real-time predictive processing. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2024), University of Michigan, May 16-18.

• Zhu, A.Y., & Grüter, T. (2023). L1 and L2 Mandarin speakers predict upcoming arguments in dative constructions based on categorical and gradient verb information. Talk at the 2nd Conference on Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing Asia (AMLaP Asia 2), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 1-3. 

• Zhu, A.Y., & Grüter, T. (2023). L2 and heritage learners of Mandarin use categorical and gradient verb constraints to predict upcoming arguments in dative constructions. Poster presented at the 48th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 48), Boston, November 2-5.

• Zhu, A.Y., & Grüter, T. (2023). Mandarin speakers predict upcoming arguments in dative constructions based on categorical and gradient verb bias. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2023), University of Pittsburgh, March 9-11.

• Zhu, A.Y., & Grüter, T. (2022). Does priming lead to L2 learning of the Mandarin dative alternation?: Evidence from judgment and production data. The 34th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-34), Indiana University Bloomington/online, September 23.

• Grüter, T., Kim, J., Nishizawa, H., Wang, J., Alzahrani, R., Chang, Y., Nguyen, H., Nuesser, M., Ohba, A., Roos, S., Yusa, M. & Zhu, Y. (2022). Does proficiency modulate attention to a talker's mouth? An extended replication of Birulés et al. (2020). Oral paper presented at the 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2022), Tromsø, Norway, August 4.

• Zhu, A.Y., & Grüter, T. (2022). Does structural priming lead to learning? Evidence from classroom learners of Mandarin. The 2nd International Conference on Error-Driven Learning in Language (EDLL 2022), Universität Tübingen, Germany/online, August 3.

• Zhu, A.Y., & Grüter, T. (2022). Can structural priming support L2 learning of the Mandarin dative alternation? Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2022), UC Santa Cruz/online, March 24.

• Zhu, A.Y., Zhao, Y., & Grüter, T. (2021). Second language learners’ sensitivity to competing alternatives is modulated by proficiency: Evidence from L2 Mandarin. International Conference on Error-Driven Learning in Language (EDLL 2021), Universität Tübingen, Germany/online, March 12.

• Grüter, T., Zhu, A.Y., & Jackson, C.N. (2021). Can forcing second language learners to generate prediction errors increase learning? International Conference on Error-Driven Learning in Language (EDLL 2021), Universität Tübingen, Germany/online, March 12.

• Grüter, T., Zhu, A.Y., & Jackson, C.N. (2021). Having to predict a (native or non-native) partner's utterance increases adaptation in L2. CUNY 2021: 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Pennsylvania/online, March 5. (short talk)

• Zhu, A.Y., Zhao, Y., & Grüter, T. (2020). Proficiency modulates L2 Mandarin speakers' sensitivity to competing alternatives in the judgment of novel constructions. Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF). Vanderbilt University/Online, October 25. 

• Zhu, A.Y., & Grüter, T. (2020).Can structural priming facilitate the acquisition of the dative alternation in L2 Mandarin? Poster presented at the 5th Chuo-UHM-UTokyo Student Conference on Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, January 17. 

• Zhu, Y., Deng, X., & Yip, V. (2018). A comparative study of the acquisition of Mandarin ba and bei constructions by monolingual and bilingual children. Poster presented at the 4th Chuo-UHM-UTokyo Student Conference on Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, September 14.  

• Zhu, Y., Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2018). Documenting a heritage Mandarin child’s language development: the Luna corpus. Poster presented at the 3rd International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages. University of California, Los Angeles, February 16-17. 

• Zhu, Y., & Zhao, Y. (2016). Acquisition of Chinese double object construction by English and Japanese speakers. Paper presented at the 6th International Symposium on Chinese Teaching for Youth Scholars. Peking University, Beijing, December 17.

• Zhu, Y., & Zhao, Y. (2016). Acquisition of Chinese double object construction by English and Japanese speakers. Paper presented at the 7th International Symposium on SLA in China. Chongqing University, Chongqing, November 12.

• Zhu, Y. (2016). The acquisition of the syntax-semantics interface in Chinese double object construction by English and Japanese speakers. Paper presented at the 6th East Asian Chinese Teaching Forum for Postgraduate students. Peking University, Beijing, May 8.

• Zhu, Y. (2012). Discriminating Phenomena of 'derivation by phonetic change’, ‘extension of word meaning’, and ‘flexible usage of word class’ in ancient Chinese. Paper presented in the 8th Academic Month on Humanities. Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, November 23.